Haihaisoft announced that the DRM-X platform has updated its Haihaisoft Universal Player to version 1.0.5.5, so that users can play both protected and non-protected Audio/Video content in a much easier way.

Haihaisoft Universal Player is a powerful media player which supports almost all popular digital media formats and can also play digital media files protected by DRM-X platform.

"The new version of Haihaisoft Universal Player improved stability of ActiveX player and protected FLV file playback. Haihaisoft Universal Player can play WMV(Windows Media Video), WMA(Windows Media Audio), ASF, WMS, DVD, VCD, SVCD, MOV, RM, RMVB, AVI, MPEG, WMV, 3GP, FLV, SWF, MP3, AMR, M4A, ACC, OGG, MIDI, GIF and JPEG file format. Content owners can embed Haihaisoft Universal Player's ActiveX Control in Internet Explorer and control the styles, sizes and other parameters to play streaming content. It's completely free for download, and it has already been downloaded more than 200,000 times. We keep updating Haihaisoft Universal Player to be world's most popular and best user friendly player with DRM functionality. We are making the content business both fair for content owners and consumers. We are very excited to see many users love Haihaisoft Universal Player and recommend it to their friends. We are constantly and continually innovating and improving Haihaisoft Universal Player, so that it can be more powerful and easier for use." Said Haibo Shi, Haihaisoft President and CEO.

The company's Haihaisoft Universal Player ActiveX Control supports streaming through HTTP, and play protected Windows Media Video and Flash Video.

Haihaisoft is one of the few companies who provide a series of essential DRM software from license server to Media Player and PDF Reader. Haihaisoft offers a content owner approved alternative to Windows Media DRM, Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management, and Flash Media Rights Management.

"We are taking DRM security very seriously. All client software, such as Haihaisoft Universal Player, PDF Reader and ActiveX controls are signed by Haihaisoft Corporation code sign certificate. Content owners can control the client software version. They can also set license to be combined with hardware to prevent password sharing. DRM-X solved the significant security problems in DRM industry. It is a flexible and secure DRM system to meet content owners and customers' needs. ", disclosed by CTO, Harry Shine of Haihaisoft.

About Haihaisoft - The World Leader in On-Demand DRM

Haihaisoft, founded in 2004, is the leader in digital rights management industry. Haihaisoft offers content protection and related solutions that enable businesses to maximize the value of their digital content products. Haihaisoft's services and solutions are deployed by companies in entertainment, consumer electronics, gaming, software, information publishing and corporate IT markets to solve industry-specific challenges.

To fulfilling that mission, Haihaisoft needs to solve the serious content piracy problem in the world. From 2003, the founder Haibo Shi and Hairui Shi started to build the DRM system and released the first product Riboo Media DRM Protector. Haihaisoft developed a new approach to protect content: content owner just needs to register an account online and then can easily protect, publish, and sell almost all Audio/Video format and PDF documents in a single system. All software are kept updating to against piracy. The content protection has never been so easy and reliable.

Since it was founded in 2004, Haihaisoft has grown to include 4 core websites and includes various solutions and service to fulfill Haihaisoft's mission. Haihaisoft solutions and services include Live P2P broadcasting, Media Encoding, Media Streaming, Media Player Customization, and PDF Reader Customization.